KRISTEN HERITAGE

Kristen Heritage is a textile and mixed media artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work practices the necessity of projecting metaphysical significance upon mundane objects and settings, and seeking out transcendental resonances in the hum and rattle of the machines that surround us.  Her sculptures, embroideries and paintings embody slow ruminations on the overstimulation of contemporary experience, rendered in a blend of careful hand craft and digitally aided fabrication techniques.  Employing symbols lifted from computer interfaces and mass-produced devices, and materials echoing the contents of a child's toybox and the interior of a saint's reliquary, Heritage's work stitches together escapism and mysticism as soft armor around an emotional core threatened by the nihilism and banality of the Anthropocene landscape.